Festival scheduled for September 18-20, 2015. Tickets on sale March 2, 10:00 a.m. mountain time. You snooze, you lose: tickets generally sell out in minutes. Celebrating 22 years in Telluride, Colorado, the annual Telluride Blues & Brews Festival will take place on September 18-20, 2015. The festival boasts four days...
Grammy-winning saxophonist Ernie Watts, James Brown collaborator Maceo Parker, New Orleans Supergroup The M&Ms & More Set to Play Telluride Jazz Festival July 31 - August 2, 2015 Two-time Grammy Award winning saxophonist Ernie Watts, rare New Orleans supergroup The M&Ms featuring John Medeski, Papa Mali,...
Ridgway organization works with underserved communities in Nepal [caption id="attachment_48788" align="aligncenter" width="348"] Nepalese children fill up the family water jugs at one of the 486 water taps dZi has built to date. Centralized drinking water systems improve health and allow women and children to efficiently and safely gather...
Last Saturday night, February 21, the Telluride Bluegrass Festival was awarded “Music Festival of the Year” at the 26th Annual Pollstar Concert Industry Awards, held at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville. This marks the first time a Colorado festival, or any bluegrass festival, has ever won...
The first-ever annual Telluride Fire Festival was a blazing success. As expected, the five-day event drew attendees from Telluride, Mountain Village and the Four Corners, but also crowds from addresses as far away as New York, Texas, Illinois, and California. The Wednesday night Festival kick-off featuring fire-themed art took...
Namaste passes $285 and Guru passes $385. Purchase tickets here. The 8th annual Telluride Yoga Festival, July 9 – July 12, plans to offer over 100 classes, meditation sessions, hikes, music, dinners, social gatherings and more. Headliners include: Sianna Sherman, Tias Little, Christina Sell, Peter Sterios, Micheline Berry and...
When the first ever Telluride Fire Festival ignites Wednesday, January 14, the guest list of founders Erin Ries and Christ Myers includes a number of very hot kinetic artists: Duane Flatmo, who brings his now legendary fiery beast “El Pulpo” to town ( see related story here); metal sculptor and...
Philanthropist, idealist, humanist, architect by training and a globe-trotting heavyweight champion of photojournalism – he is a National Geographic fellow whose images have graced many covers – the man known simply as Reza was an honored guest of Mountainfilm in Telluride last May. His subject, ironically in the...
Art and technology meet in the two-story (26-feet tall) fire-breathing, steampunk windup toy affectionately known as “El Pulpo Mecanico” (Mechanical Octopus). [caption id="attachment_47678" align="alignnone" width="480"] Duane Flatmo WIth ElPulpo Mecanico, by Jason Mongue[/caption] El Pulpo is a found object masterpiece fashioned from junk found at at local...
The Guest of Honor for the 39th annual Telluride Jazz Festival is two-time Grammy Award winning saxophonist Ernie Watts. Starting his vibrant career at the tender age of 13, Watts has been featured on over 500 recordings with artists ranging from Thelonious Monk to Frank Zappa. His years...
